Relevant Contact Points in North Dakota

Serves as the state survey and licensing authority for hospitals, nursing facilities, basic care facilities, assisted living, ambulatory surgical centers, home health, hospice, ICF/IID, CLIA labs, and rural health clinics.

Speaks for residents of assisted living, basic care, hospital swing-bed, and nursing home settings statewide, and recruits volunteer ombudsmen.

Investigates and prosecutes health care providers who defraud North Dakota Medicaid or who abuse, neglect, or financially exploit a patient at any Medicaid-funded facility, with statewide criminal and civil jurisdiction under N.D.C.C. ch. 50-24.8. Anonymous complaints are not accepted.

Serves as the statewide intake line for reports of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or self-neglect of a vulnerable adult, including facility residents. Reporters' identities are confidential.

Enforces the state's Consumer Fraud Law, though it does not itself intake individual debt-collector complaints.

Licenses and disciplines collection agencies, including medical-debt collectors and passive debt buyers, under N.D.C.C. ch. 13-05, and takes consumer complaints against them.

This is the North Dakota Insurance Department's general public-assistance contact point.

Describes the roughly 45 trained volunteers statewide who staff North Dakota's State Health Insurance Assistance Program, using CMS National Training Program and SHIP Technical Assistance Center training materials. The page also calls on readers to contact the Insurance Department to become a volunteer counselor.

Fields health-insurance and other consumer complaints via its online Consumer Complaint form. The Department's role is limited to determining whether the company complied with North Dakota insurance law and the policy's own terms.

Handles utilization-review-agent certification (N.D.C.C. § 26.1-26.4 / N.D. Admin. Code § 45-06-10) and related company-licensing filings.

This is the board's official contact listing.

Licenses and investigates complaints against nursing homes, basic care, and other licensed health facilities.

This is the department's home page.

This is the department's securities-section landing page, linking to Enforcement Actions, Filing and Registration, Broker-Dealer and Agent Registration, Investment Advisers and IA Representatives Registration, and Investor Alerts and Advisories.